A "novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia"--
Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality You don't have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how--and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects. For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes: Determining the most effective ways to leverage components Avoiding component pitfalls Customizing external resources for use with components Building your own components Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component Customizing component artwork Using components to build games Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips Troubleshooting component construction and application Using multiple components to create more complex effects Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Hall's own craft and speak in direct, powerful new ways to universal contemporary issues of freedom and equality. The poems, by providing new prisms through which to view today's power constructs, challenge the reader to recognize the coded and decoded socio-political-economic struggles of marginalized people today.
This updated edition covers the fundamentals of ophthalmic disease diagnosis and management. The text also serves as an ophthalmic pathology reference with chapters on ocular disorders and their management, and includes a chapter on pre- and post-operative cataract care.
Mona Dash's first child is born with SCID (Severe Combined Immuno-Deficiency) for which there is no treatment in his country. And so begins her roller-coaster journey which spans ten years, takes her from India to London, and involves her in the complexities of genetic medicine. Mona Dash writes her story of genetics roulette without self-pity, with astounding courage and even humour. Her memoir contains valuable information for couples facing infertility and complicated pregnancies, for parents of premature babies and children with SCID. With an introduction by Professor Bobby Gaspar of Great Ormond Street Hospital, pioneer in gene therapy.
"This collection of stories by Kurt Luchs pursues its comedic quarry with the ruthlessness of a pussycat trying to get out of a cardboard box. Luchs, who has written for august literary organs such as The Onion, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and even been published by some of them, is an inspired comic writer in the tradition of P.J. Wodehouse, S.J. Perelman, and Woody Allen, for whom not only the world but language itself is a source of constant delight. Even the hilarity he generates is not an end in itself; the convulsing diaphragms of his laughing readers are in his hands a remotely operated musical instrument bridging the woodwind and percussion sections."--Cover
From a real-life ambassador's wife and the acclaimed author of Exile Music comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda meets British ambassador Finn in the ancient stone streets of an Islamic city, the course of her life alters in extraordinary ways. Their marriage gives her the luxury to paint whenever she wants, a staff to wait on her, and a young daughter she adores, but she loses the freedom to wander where she likes and to meet the Muslim women she is secretly teaching to paint. Her husband also makes Miranda a target: One sunny afternoon while hiking in the mountains, she is brutally kidnapped. As Finn struggles to save his family and his career, and Miranda grows close to a stranger’s child in captivity, the secrets he and Miranda have each sought to hide place them and those who trust them in peril. Not even freedom could restore the happiness that once was theirs.
Annotation Integrating Flash, Fireworks, FreeHand f/x & Design teaches how to bring together Macromedia's popular Web-design tools into one integrated workflow. Delve into the power of Fireworks, discover FreeHand's exceptional drawing tools, and prepare designs for use in Flash. Master the hottest features and how to integrate them into designing compelling Web pages. Featuring a Flash introduction by Flash guru Hillman Curtis, this book teaches how to design bannder ads, make Movie Clips, and write ActionScript! Projects within this book were contributed by leading designers including Scott Hamlin, Tracy Kelly, Ian Kelleigh, and Fig Leaf Software. The accompanying CD-ROM contains tutorial movies, a free copy of Eye Candy 3 Special Edition, demos and plug-in demos, and 500 free photo objects from Hemera Technologies.